Pasty Central comes to you each day from Still Waters, a modern and comfortable Home for the Elderly in Calumet, Michigan. As I was driving from Still Waters one snowy morning this week, the flag at Peterson's Funeral Home caught my eye - fluttering above a wind-swept snowbank, with a backdrop of the giant smokestack next to the Calumet High School.

Pausing in the brilliant sunshine to click the Pasty Cam, I realized that the fabric of my life has become woven with all of sorts of landmarks: Still Waters, Calumet High, the old mining buildings, snowbanks, Lake Superior, Brockway Mountain Drive, the Lift Bridge, Quincy, MTU, Finlandia, Bete Grise, Copper Harbor... on and on. What a priveledge these past four years to bring to these pages a glimpse of life in the U.P., a place I feel very much at home.

But that waving flag brings to mind some other folks who are away from home, perhaps this very moment dodging bullets, on a mission to prevent the horror of last September 11 from ever happening again. Our prayers are with those service men and women - for their safe return - and wisdom for America's leadership in these difficult days.
By PJK SWMichigan on Saturday, March 9, 2002 - 07:53 am:

I was happy to see our flag flying high. Let us always fly our flag high and with pride, and let us pray that our country will always be as free as the wind that is blowing that flag. Patron of Vancouver WA, what part of the CC are you from. I'm from near Houghton.
By Connie Ft. Riley, KS on Saturday, March 9, 2002 - 11:08 pm: